Sentence examples for respectable crowd from inspiring English sources
"That was a fairly respectable crowd," he said as we walked to the escalator.
But there was still a respectable crowd in this huge hall, and Mr. Metzmacher, with Mr. Henze's help, managed to redeem himself after the intermission.
Named after Thomas Hardy, its founder and a pioneering Australian viticulturist, it recently merged with Constellation Brands of America, in yet another step towards the globalisation of Australian wine.Banrock Station's wines are respectable crowd pleasers.
In front of a respectable crowd of 14,000 the Titans led the Wests Tigers 12-6 down the stretch and twice, at 12-all, they had good field position from which to attempt a winning field goal.
Mr. Ratner recently gave a reading for his latest novel, "In the Land of the Living," at Book Court, a bookstore in Cobble Hill, Brooklyn, that drew a respectable crowd for a mid-list author reading from his sophomore effort.
The trash movement, which calls itself Responsible Citizens, does not yet qualify as broad, but it still drew a respectable crowd on a recent Sunday, considering the heat (above 90 degrees) and the time (around 4 p.m).
It is certainly getting respectable crowds at public meetings.
In a central square which would be perfect for mass daily protests if relocated to Athens, a Latvian R&B band called Čehols was attracting a decent crowd, respectable tips and CD sales.
Yet he remains not only respectable among the Beltway crowd; as Ezra says, he's lionized in a way that looks from the outside like a clear violation of journalistic norms: For reasons I've never quite understood, the rules of reportorial neutrality don't apply when it comes to the deficit.
" 'But we're not actually going to come see it.' " That was 1991, when the festival began, drawing respectable reviews but disappointing crowds.
"It's a long process to get to the point where you can have a truly viable professional sports league for women," she said, pointing out that when the W.N.B.A. started play in 1997, it was preceded by several years of large crowds and respectable television ratings for N.C.A.A. women's basketball.
